It is called a demobilisation centre but a better term for what takes place inside the corrugated tin classrooms of Mutobo may be genocide rehab. Nine years after the slaughter, Rwanda’s killers are coming home and this centre in Ruhengeri province in the north-west of the country is their first stop.
Allan Boesak, the liberation cleric and founder member of UDF, jailed for fraud and theft of donor money in 2000, did not qualify for a presidential pardon, according to the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Development.
Social workers are leaving the profession in droves, discouraged by low salaries and overwork as well as by poor — and often dangerous — working conditions. Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya has declared social work a ”scarce skill”.
Landmark legal action has pinpointed serious abuses of the legislative power provincial education departments wield over schools.
Old hat JM Coetzee, Barbara Trapido and Damon Galgut are among some local nominees on the esteemed Booker Prize longlist of 23 novels this year, writes John Ezard in London.
Allister Sparks, a grandfather of South African journalism, has fired one of the first volleys in the 10-year assessment with <i>Beyond the Miracle</i>, the third in his series on South Africa, writes Ferial Haffajee.
An African celebration by one of South Africa’s most famous artists stands on the brink of destruction as hammers and drills await the word from developers bent on enlarging one of Johannesburg’s richest shopping centres, reports François Ebersöhn.
"There’s been too much Missy Eliott and way too little Lebo Mathosa on my poor eardrums," types Thando Mkhize. Nadia Neophytou considers how the increased local content quota will benefit music.
"How about a jazz radio station? Yeah, why not?" It’s a simplistic statement sure, but when it is expressed and discussed at the launch of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, be sure that it may not just be talk, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
<b>Movie of the week: </b> John Cusack’s strongest asset is his face, which always seems to convey a kind of melancholy wit, writes Shaun de Waal. And Cusack’s style perfectly suits his latest character in <i>Max</i>.